Lower Manhattan & New Jersey — Wall Street walks and helicopters
A Wall Street walking tour that ends with Empire State entry, and the helicopter tours from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport and Kearny, New Jersey, which show you the building from the air.
Downtown Manhattan Heliport, Pier 6 · 6 E River Piers, New York, NY 10004
Helicopter tour 4.8 ★ · 2,427 reviews (GetYourGuide)
A helicopter operator at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport, by the Brooklyn Bridge. The 12–15 minute Manhattan Tour is $259 per seat plus a $40 heliport fee and $5 fuel surcharge; the longer Empire Tour is $389 plus the same fees, and night flights leave from Fairfield, New Jersey. Six seats per helicopter. Caveat: late arrivals are charged $50 per passenger, and the Empire State is seen from the air, not visited.
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Check dates for the top pick → Downtown Manhattan Heliport, Pier 6 · 6 East River Piers, New York, NY 10004 · est. 1994
Helicopter tour 4.6 ★ · 2,809 reviews (Google Maps)
A helicopter operator founded in 1994 flying from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport at Pier 6. The New Yorker tour, which names the Empire State Building among its landmarks, is $259 per seat plus a $45 facility fee and fuel surcharge; a New Jersey skyline tour flies from Linden. Bell 407 helicopters seat six. It suits a once-in-a-trip view of the skyline from the side. Caveat: you see the building from the air; there is no observatory entry.
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Check dates for the top pick → NYON terminal, Kearny Point, New Jersey · 78 John Miller Way, Kearny, NJ 07032
Doors-off helicopter flight 4.6 ★ · 11,468 reviews (Google Maps)
The best-known doors-off helicopter flight in New York, from a terminal at Kearny Point, New Jersey, a taxi ride from the PATH or New Jersey Transit. The 16-minute flight starts at $149 per seat plus fees whose amount is not published; the 30-minute Classic from $330. Six passengers per flight, harnessed in with feet over the edge. It suits photographers. Caveat: it leaves from New Jersey, not Manhattan, and its site does not name the Empire State Building on its routes.
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Check dates for the top pick → Federal Hall, 26 Wall Street · 857 9th Avenue #4D, New York, NY 10019 · est. 2017
Walking tour + self-guided visit 4.4 ★ · 324 reviews (GetYourGuide)
A walking-tour company founded in 2017 whose Empire State tour starts outside Federal Hall on Wall Street: a three-hour guided walk through Lower Manhattan, then an 86th-floor ticket for a visit on your own. $120 per adult and $72 per child on its own site, groups of 10 to 15. Pick it to combine downtown and the view in one booking. Caveat: the guide does not go up the building with you, and its own site gives its company name three different ways. Also bookable on GetYourGuide ($120, 4.1★, 23 reviews) →
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Check availability → Left out. We list companies that run their own trips and publish them on their own website. City passes (CityPASS and Go City) sell other attractions' admissions rather than running tours, so they appear only in the bookable list above. We also left out a private-guide network with no New York address that prices only in euros, a reseller with no New York tours on its own site, and walking-tour companies whose Midtown routes do not include the Empire State Building.
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